History Main / TrrrillingRrrs

* The Two Fat Ladies frequently do this.

** The Seventh Doctor turns this into an art form as a means of underlining Creator/SylvesterMcCoy's status as the first Scottish Doctor, which leads to extreme {{Narm}} when he has to face The Gods Of Rrrragnarrrok.

* ''Series/FatherTed'': Bishop Brennan had to be in Rrrome tomorrow for an audience with the pope!

* Alfred's [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Eggman]] from ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'' doesn't do this often, but when he does it's ''glorious.'' [[https://youtu.be/tkW8yNnrGO8 Most famously is of course him announcing]][[ItMakesSenseInContext he pissed on the moon]], and that the piss drrrroplets were going to hit the Earth in 23 hours. However, one of the most impressive rrrr's of this dub is during his drunken rant at the end of the Last Story, where he manages to extend the r in a word that ''doesn't even have any r's in it!''

* Alfred's [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Eggman]] from ''WebVideo/RealTimeFanDub'' doesn't do this often, but when he does it's ''glorious.'' [[https://youtu.be/tkW8yNnrGO8 Most famously is of course him announcing]][[ItMakesSenseInContext he pissed on the moon]], and that the piss drrrroplets were going to hit the Earth in 23 hours. However, one of the most impressive rrrr's of this dub is during his drunken rant at the end of the Last Story, where he manages to extend the r in a word that ''doesn't even have any r's in it!''

* Grand Moff Tarkin from ''Film/StarWars'' Episode IV: ''Film/ANewHope''. "[[MoralEventHorizon You may fire when rrready...]]"
** Extra ham/elocution points for also pronouncing the "h" in "when".
** "We will deal with yourrr rrrebel frrriends soon enough."

* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'': Scottish rebels have routed one of my garrisons and murdered the noble lord.
* [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd What]] [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent arrr]] [[LargeHam ye]] [[HamToHamCombat doin']]?

** [[Series/DoctorWho Sylvester McCoy]] has been cast as Rrradagast the Brrrrown in ''Film/TheHobbit''. Good times ahead.
** Justified in these examples (except for "heir" and "brown"), as the Elvish languages have rolled R's. (Then again, from what language is the name Radagast?)
*** Old High German, actually. But names like "Radagast" or "Gandalf" aren't actually [[IHaveManyNames any of their real names]], but a TranslationConvention whereby names in Tolkien's languages are turned into Germanic ones for the convenience of English-speaking readers.

Usually the [[EvilIsHammy Hammy]] [[EvilOverlord Evil Overlorrrd]] will constantly rrroll his tongue. Forrreign People will also speak like this. In some cases justified, as in severrral languages / dialects the R is prrronounced like this ([[FakeRussian Rrrussian]], Italian, Dutch, Afrrrrikaans, Finnish, some Gerrrman and [[VampireVords Trrransylvanian]] dialects, Scots, and some Spanish words), otherrr than in English. Also frrrequently employed when the speakerrr is rrrelated to felines in some way, imitating a cat's purrrring.

** In Old and Middle English, the "r" was invariably trilled, but come Shakespeare's time the trill had disappeared and now only survives in a few dialects, most notably Scots as mentioned below.

* Scrooge [=McDuck=], another Scottish character, often does this on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''.

-->'''Robotnik:''' I'll have to give myself a PRRROMOTION!

** In the English dub, all the Italy family is prone, but the best is definitely Creator/IanSinclair as Romano, the hammy incarnation of Southern Italy. [[LargeHam PREPARRRE]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny TO MEET YOURRR]] [[GermanicDepressives BOOORRRRING GOD]] [[TooDumbToLive IN YOURRR BORRRING]] GE-AR-MAN HE-A-VEHN

Usually the [[EvilIsHammy Hammy]] [[EvilOverlord Evil Overlorrrd]] will constantly rrroll his tongue. Forrreign People will also speak like this. In some cases justified, as in severrral languages / dialects the R is always prrronounced like this ([[FakeRussian Rrrussian]], Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Afrrrrikaans, Finnish, some Gerrrman and [[VampireVords Trrransylvanian]] dialects, and Scots), otherrr than in English. Also frrrequently employed when the speakerrr is rrrelated to felines in some way, imitating a cat's purrrring.

** South African comic trevor Noah also pointed out the unfortunate consequence that, if your first language is Afrikaans which has heavily sounded R's, when you learn to speak German, all Germans from outside Austria perceive you as not just Austrian but doing an extremely unsettling Hitler impersonation. [[BlackSpeech German-speaking South Africans sound like demagogues addressing a massed rally]]. Even if all they are asking you to is to pass the salt down the table.

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, there are characters from the barely-there but hinted at canonical region of [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Rimwards Howondaland]]. The convention evolved thet White Howondalandian cherecters spoke Morporkian in a way thet, on the page, comprissed their vowel sounds from "a" to "e". Just to emphasise their particular ethnic origin. Doing this consistently with ''every'' quirk of a South African accent would, as Pessimal points out, make their discourse hard to read, even if it ''was'' phonetically accurate. Of course, one quirk of South African English - and Afrikaans - is ''rhoticity'' - the Trilled R. This would elso be herrrrd to rrrrread if ixprrrrissed phoniticelly. Pessimal suggested it should be taken as read and the reader could infer the general concept from the "a - e" thing. This is lampshaded in a discussion about Rimwards Howondalandian Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes. One observer remarks about her magnificently rolling R's. Another, who was privileged to see her in a dress from behind, agrees. [[note]]She normally favours comfortable trousers and only occassionally "dresses girly"[[/note]]